28mm Wars of the French Revolution French Horse Artillery and Limbers
The Wars of The French Revolution brought the use of Horse Artillery to the fore. Created in 1792 there were two compagnies, each consisting of four 8lb guns and 2 howitzers. By 1794 when it reached its peak there were 54 compagnies, an extraordinary achievement and one that shows the regard in which this relatively new form of artillery was held.
Thanks to Gribeauval and Cornet the French artillery pieces were the best in Europe. The esprit de corps of this new arm of the Revolution was often remarked to be the highest in the army. There are two instances where gunners were reported to have mounted and charged enemy cavalry, without their guns, such was their bravery.
To celebrate these men we have produced the two main uniforms they wore and three different styles of head wear. There are a staggering number of uniforms known from the period most of which are covered by the six variants we offer. As the role of horse artillery is to be highly mobile we have provided all the crews in both foot and mounted variants, along with limbers, caissons and a wurtz wagon.
We have both four and six horse teams available in walking and running poses as well as separate limbers. All limber teams were crewed by civilians, something which did cause problems at the time as the spirit of the drivers did not always match that of the gunners.
All of these items can be also be used with our previously released foot artillery figures.
They are fantastic! Unfortunately it is not my period. But I could use the 6-horse-limber with civilian drivers for my AWI artillery. By the way: it is "Wurstwagen" (Wurst meaning sausage); so in English it ought to be "sausage waggon". Obviously it was a soldiers' joke.